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How to achieve the perfect lawn
13.10.2023 - 16:07 / theenglishgarden.co.uk / Niamh Collins
With winter rapidly approaching, it’s time to give lawns some final TLC, helping them to
recover from the challenging summer months of warm weather and heavy footfall, and to
prepare for the colder months to come.
In the autumn, grass typically grows more slowly as it focuses on strengthening its roots.
While it is doing this, instead of stopping cutting completely, it’s advised to raise the
height of your mower’s cutting blade to approximately 5cm and only mow every week or
fortnight, reducing as temperatures drop. This will stop putting undue stress on the grass
and will leave longer grass stems and consequently more surface area for your lawn to
capture sunlight when it is reduced over winter.
While of course mowing is vitally important in creating and maintaining a healthy lawn,
achieving the perfect patch goes far beyond a simple mow. As a minimum, it requires
scarifying and aerating to help remove thatch and dead grass, reduce compaction, allow
air circulation and encourage nutrients that will help to strengthen roots and create
stronger, more resilient grass.
Scarifying is a vital technique that involves the removal of thatch, moss and organic
matter from the soil surface. This task is essential for maintaining lawn health as debris on
the surface can prohibit water, air and nutrients from reaching the soil. The process of
essentially raking the surface rejuvenates lawns, promotes healthy growth and prepares
them for the challenges of winter weather conditions. Gardeners should aim to scarify
during the early to mid-autumn when the grass is still actively growing and a few days
after you last mowed.
Once you have scarified, it’s time to aerate! Soil aeration is the process of perforating the
lawn to alleviate
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